OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Studies Quarterly is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Solidarity through Cynicism? The Influence of Russian Conspiracy Narratives Abroad	56
Nonresident Prime Ministers? Measuring India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel	47
Why International Organizations Don’t Learn: Dissent Suppression as a Source of IO Dysfunction	36
Global Value Chains as a Constraint on Sovereignty: Evidence from Investor–State Dispute Settlement	33
Unmasking Militants: Organizational Trends in Armed Groups, 1970–2012	31
Corrigendum to “Ambivalent Sexism? Shifting Patterns of Gender Bias in Five Arab Countries”	30
Lineage or Legions? Explaining Imperial Rule Duration in the Roman Empire	28
Strategy, Secrecy, and External Support for Insurgent Groups	28
Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment	27
Correction to: No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America	25
The Ripple Effects of the Illegitimacy of War	22
Why Territorial Disputes Escalate: The Causes of Conquest Attempts since 1945	21
Food Insecurity and Unrest Participation: Evidence from Johannesburg, South Africa	20
Move First to Avoid the Worst: Leadership Turnover and the Targeting of New Leaders	20
What Counts as Transitional Justice Scholarship? Citational Recognition and Disciplinary Hierarchies in Theory and Practice	19
Slow Dissent and Worldmaking beyond Imperial Relations in “Kamer-amère” (Bitter Cameroon)	18
An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument	16
Resisting Lockdown: The Influence of COVID-19 Restrictions on Social Unrest	16
A Bargaining Theory of Criminal War	16
Who Joins and Who Fights? Explaining Tacit Coalition Behavior among Civil War Actors	15
Public Opinion and Crisis Behavior in a Nuclearized South Asia	15
Harnessing Intuition and Disciplining Abstraction: Thought Experiments in International Relations	14
Modeling Diffusion through Statistical Network Analysis: A Simulation Study and Empirical Application to Same-Sex Marriage	14
Ideological Topography in World Politics: A Guide to the End of the Unipolar-Homogeneous Moment	14
Memory Entrepreneurship: Armenian Genocide Recognition in Europe	14

What Relations Matter?	14
Reputations and Change in International Relations	13
Can “Soft” Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?	13
Anarchy and Empire: World-Conquerors and International Systems	13
Transnational Legal Spillover? A Re-Appraisal of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention	12
Resilience and Domination: Resonances of Racial Slavery in Refugee Exclusion	12
“Train the World”: Examining the Logics of US Foreign Military Training	12
Why They Fight: How Perceived Motivations for Military Service Shape Support for the Use of Force	11
Risk Is Relative: Heterogeneous Responses to Institutional Risks for Foreign Investment	11
Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations	11
Electing More Women to National Legislatures: An Interplay between Global Normative Pressure and Domestic Political Regimes	11
Learning to Fight Together: UN Peacekeeping Coalitions and Civilian Protection	11
When Generalized Trust Matters? Impact of Industrial Tertiarization on Trade Preference Formation	11
Dealing with Clashes of International Law: A Microlevel Study of Climate and Trade	11
The Logic of Ceasefires in Civil War	10
More than a Number: Aging Leaders in International Politics	10
Differential Effects of Information and Communication Technology on (De-) Democratization of Authoritarian Regimes	10
Threat Conceptions in Global Security Discourse: Analyzing the Speech Records of the United Nations Security Council, 1990–2019	10
Human Shields and the Gulf War	10
Global Treaties and Domestic Politics: Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Constrain Taxation in Developing Countries?	9
Force Structure and Local Peacekeeping Effectiveness: Micro-Level Evidence on UN Troop Composition	9
Memory-Political Deterrence: Shielding Collective Memory and Ontological Security through Dissuasion	9
Diffusing Risk: Bureaucratic Agency, UN Security Council Horse-Trading, and the Role of Co-Financing	9
Why Costly Rivalry Disputes Persist: A Paired Conjoint Experiment in Japan and South Korea	9
From Norm Violations to Norm Development: Deviance, International Institutions, and the Torture Prohibition	9
One if by Land, and Two if by Sea: Cross-Domain Contests and the Escalation of International Crises	9
Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations	8
Art World Fields and Global Hegemonies	8
Love is Worldmaking: Reading Rabindranath Tagore'sGoraas International Theory	8
Why National Ministries Consider the Policy Advice of International Bureaucracies: Survey Evidence from 106 Countries	8
A “Priesthood of Knowledge”: The International Thought of Henri de Saint-Simon	8
“Yes-Man” Firms: Government Campaign and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China	8
The Intractability of Islamist Insurgencies: Islamist Rebels and the Recurrence of Civil War	8
How Do Economic Sanctions Affect Public Opinion and Consumer Behavior in Target States? Evidence from China's Economic Sanctions on South Korea	8
Mass Emigration and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy	7
Racial Discrimination in International Visa Policies	7
How Bashar al-Asad Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the “War on Terror”	7
Provocation, Public Opinion, and International Disputes: Evidence from China	7
Norm Contestation and Normative Transformation in Global Peacebuilding Order(s): The Cases of China, Japan, and Russia	7
Effects of Self-Legitimation and Delegitimation on Public Attitudes toward International Organizations: A Worldwide Survey Experiment	7
Do Intergovernmental Organizations Have a Socialization Effect on Member State Preferences? Evidence from the UN General Debate	7
Wrestlemania! Summit Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Performance after Trump	7
Defending Society, Building the Nation: Rebel Governance as Competing Biopolitics	6
Against Diffusion: Power and Institutions in African–European Relations	6
Correction to: The Design of Autocratic Trade Agreements: Economic Integration and Political Survival	6
Is Global Capitalism Compatible with Democracy? Inequality, Insecurity, and Interdependence	6
Needs or Symbols? The Logic of United Nations Counterterrorism Treaty Ratification	6
Social Power and the Politics of Reservations and Objections in Human Rights Treaties	6
Using Trade Provisions to Make Environmental Agreements More Dynamic	6
Hand-Tying through Military Signals in Crisis Bargaining	6

The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas	6
Bending the Automation Bias Curve: A Study of Human and AI-Based Decision Making in National Security Contexts	6
Correction to: The Imagination and International Relations	6
Putting the Civilian Back in Civil–Military Relations: How Civilian Leaders Condition the Effects of Security Assistance	6
Alliance Dynamics in the Shadow of Shifting Power	6
Domination for the Rest? Creating and Contesting Secondary State-Led International Hierarchies	6
Diversity without Adversity? Ethnic Bias toward Refugees in a Co-Religious Society	5
Infrastructural Geopolitics	5
Win-Win Deescalation	5
Environmental Concern Leads to Trade Skepticism on the Political Left and Right	5
Political Obligations of Refugees	5
The Defeminizing Reversal: Globalization, Industrial Upgrading, and Female Labor Force Participation	5
Do International Dispute Bodies Overreach? Reassessing World Trade Organization Dispute Ruling	5
Alliance Participation, Treaty Depth, and Military Spending	5
Escalation Management in Gray Zone Crises: The Proxy Factor	5
Anarchy as Architect: Competitive Pressure, Technology, and the Internal Structure of States	5
Indicators and Success Stories: The UN Sustaining Peace Agenda, Bureaucratic Power, and Knowledge Production in Post-War Settings	5
Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability	5
The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage	5
Emigration and Political Contestation	5
Government Choices of Debt Instruments	5
Free Trade's Organized Progressive Opposition	5
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies	5
The Limits of Liberalization: WTO Entry and Chinese State-Owned Firms	4
Audience Costs and the Credibility of Public versus Private Threats in International Crises	4
The Mercurial Commitment: Revisiting the Unintended Consequences of Military Humanitarian Intervention and Anti-Atrocity Norms	4
Rebel Fragmentation and the Recruitment of Child Soldiers	4
Membership Has Its Privileges: Targeted Killing Norms and the Firewall of International Society	4
Do Foreign Military Deployments Provide Assurance? Unpacking the Micro-Mechanisms of Burden Sharing in Alliances	4
Russia's Leadership in Eurasia: Holding Together or Falling Apart?	4
Authoritarian Propaganda Campaigns on Foreign Affairs: Four Birds, One Stone, and the South China Sea Arbitration	4
Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities	4
In the Eyes of the Beholders: The Legitimacy of Global Governance Institutions under Multipolarity	4
Gulliver Unleashed? International Order, Restraint, and The Case of Ancient Athens	4
Disaggregating Repression: Identifying Physical Integrity Rights Allegations in Human Rights Reports	4
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies: A Cross Sectional and Cross Organizational Analysis	4
Historical Immigration Policies: Trends and Lessons	4
“It’s Just How Things Are Done”: Social Ecologies of Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Aid	4
When the Rich Get Richer: Class, Globalization, and the Sociotropic Determinants of Populism	4
The Shadow of Official Development Assistance: ODA, Corruption, and the Shadow Economy in Recipients	4
The Social Construction of Global Health Priorities: An Empirical Analysis of Contagion in Bilateral Health Aid	4
Executive Power Sharing in the Face of Civil War	4
Border Barriers and Illicit Trade Flows	4
The Servant of Many Masters: The Multiple Commitments of State- Agents	4
No Safe Haven: Operation Condor and Transnational Repression in South America	4